Our members

South Bermondsey Partnership stemmed from a new initiative from The
National Lottery. They were concerned that the people most in need were
not applying for funding and so they afforded the opportunity to local
organisations and groups to identify areas of multiple deprivation and
to apply for funding on behalf of those communities. There are now 152
Big Locals across the country and we are proud to be one of them.

Our group identified 6 large estates along
The Old Kent Road to work with and for 2 years with small amounts of
seed funding from The National Lottery we worked mostly with the tenant
and resident associations on those sites to help them identify what
needed to be done to make their area a better place to live. We aim to
work with Elder people who feel isolated from the community, younger
people who need to develop more skills and green open spaces which would
benefit the community.